The performance Florence Price’s Piano Quintet receives on this eagerly awaited new release from the Takács Quartet and Marc-André Hamelin would suggest that it can be only a matter of time before the work—rediscovered only in 2009—is as familiar and much-loved as the one by Dvořák with which it shares the album.
‘I love the way Hamelin ever-so-slightly stretches the longer notes in his opening accompanying figure [of the Dvořák], immediately drawing one into this interior world, and how cellist András Fejér s ...
BBC Music Magazine
‘It’s very special, so well matched … here we have a perfect balance … it was recorded in the Nimbus Concert Hall, which is a wonderful, luxury venue especially for this kind of music. So yo ...
BBC Music Magazine‘It’s very special, so well matched … here we have a perfect balance … it was recorded in the Nimbus Concert Hall, which is a wonderful, luxury venue especially for this kind of music. So yo ...